Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor: TB Diagnosis and Case Finding

Target Audience

• Sr. DR-TB TB-HIV Supervisor

• Role of the Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor in diagnostic centres

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• Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor: Diagnostic Technologies

  • Principles and Methods of Testing for TB diagnosis
  • Laboratory Diagnosis of Drug-resistant TB
  • Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
  • Line Probe Assay [LPA]
  • Solid and Liquid Culture in TB
  • Patient Turnaround Time from Identification to Treatment Initiation Relative to the Laboratory Technology Used in DR-TB

• Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor: Diagnostic Network and Hierarchy

  • Laboratory Hierarchy and Network
  • Process of Sample Collection and Transportation

• Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor: Approaches to TB Case Finding

  • Screening For Tuberculosis Disease
  • Universal Drug-susceptibility Testing (UDST) for TB
  • UDST Report
  • Approaches to TB Case Finding
  • Bidirectional Screening Approach

• Senior DR-TB/TB-HIV Supervisor: TB Case Finding in NTEP

  • Classification of TB on the basis of Type of Diagnosis
  • Classification of TB on the basis of Drug Resistance
  • Classification of TB on the basis of Site of disease
  • Classification of TB cases based on history of Previous TB treatment
  • Integrated DR-TB Algorithm
  • Diagnostic Algorithm for Paediatric DR-TB
  • Diagnostic Algorithm for EPTB